What robot (web) libraries are available for python?

Question

Specifically, are there any libraries that do not use sockets? I will be running this code in Google App Engine, which does not allow the use of sockets.

Google app engine does allow the use of urllib2 to make web requests.

I've been trying to get mechanize to work, since that what I've used before, but if there's something easier, I'd rather do that.

thanks, Mark

Answer 1

How would you download pages without using sockets? That's like eating without mouth. Maybe GAE have some kind of I.V. API, tho.

Answer 2

To answer your question, twill and webunit are some other Python programmatic web browsing libraries. However, I'd be surprised if any of them worked off the bat with Google App Engine given the restricted stdlib.

Answer 3

urlfetch seems to do the same thing that you are looking for.